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Vers le Blanc Infini. Poèmes et...
An excellent copy of Arp's artist book.
£4,000
Arp, HansVers le Blanc Infini...1960
Carnet de Croquis / Sketch Book
A remarkable, early sketch book by Kees Van Dongen, undated, but likely from his early sojourns in Paris c.
£22,500
Van Dongen, KeesCarnet de Croquis /...c.1900
Parler Seul
One of Miró's greatest illustrated books.
£15,000
Miro, Joan. Tzara, TristanParler Seul1950
Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu
Picasso's collaboration with Ambroise Vollard, his illustrations for Balzac's protean novella.
£22,500
Picasso, Pablo. Balzac, Honoré deLe Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu1931
Parallèlement
The ground-breaking 'Parallèlement', Ambroise Vollard's first book, Verlaine's verse illustrated with Pierre Bonnard's delicate rose lithographs.
£20,000
Bonnard, Pierre. Verlaine, P[aul]Parallèlement1900
Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos. (Les Crétois)
A superb example of Henri Matisse's 'Pasiphaé' with the original cover in excellent condition.
£17,500
Matisse, Henri. Montherlant, Henri dePasiphaé, Chant de Minos...1944
La Lampe dans l'Horloge. Avec une...
André Breton's copy, entirely uncut and unopened, with proofs of his text and an additional version of Toyen's original lithograph.
£4,500
Toyen. (Marie Cerminova). Breton, AndréLa Lampe dans l'Horloge...1948
Légitime Défense
Andre Breton's own copy of his pamphlet, with a leaf of manuscript and other related ephemera.
£3,250
Breton, AndréLégitime Défense1926
Eclairez Votre Religion - Aux Enfants...
André Breton's excellent copy of this very scarce plaquette destined for the children of workers and noted for its virulent 'anticlérical, anticapitaliste, anticolonialiste, antipatriotique' sentiments.
£3,000
Adam, Georges. Aragon LouisEclairez Votre Religion -...1932
Rrose Sélavy
An excellent copy of the collection of Marcel Duchamp's verbal and literary witticisms: aphorisms, puns, apothegms and phrasal palindromes.
£950
Duchamp, MarcelRrose Sélavy1939
La Double Vue / L'Inventeur du...
Robert Lebel's dual novel and autobiography with Marcel Duchamp's signed multiple, Giacometti's signed diptych and the additional signed suite of his etchings.
£50,000
Giacometti, Alberto & Marcel Duchamp. Lebel, RobertLa Double Vue /...1964
VIIIe Pythique
A superb example of this superb collaboration between Picasso and PAB.
£22,500
Picasso, Pablo. Pindare. (Jean Beaufret, Trans.)VIIIe Pythique1960
Anthologie de l'Humour Noir
An excellent, unsophisticated copy of André Breton's important 'Anthologie de l'Humour Noir' with the frontispiece etching by Picasso and Oscar Dominguez's unique cover.
£35,000
Picasso, Picasso. Breton, AndréAnthologie de l'Humour Noir1940
L'Antitête - Monsieur AA l'Antiphilosophe. Eaux-fortes...
An excellent copy, completely unsophisticated as issued, of the second edition - the first in this form and with these illustrations - of Tristan Tzara's triple anthology of works.
£22,500
Ernst, Max, Yves Tanguy & Joan Miro. Tzara, TristanL'Antitête - Monsieur AA...1949
Bulletin de 'l'Effort Moderne'. No. 1...
A scarce complete set of Léonce Rosenberg's 'Bulletin de 'L'Effort Moderne' with all the wrappers by Georges Valmier.
£17,500
Rosenberg, LéonceBulletin de 'l'Effort Moderne'...1924–1927
Das Naturgesetz und die Struktur der...
The deluxe edition of the Stuttgart-based Belser Press edition of Werner Heisenberg's speech with Hans Erni's etchings.
£450
Erni, Hans. Heisenberg, WernerDas Naturgesetz und die...1967
Oslinyĭ Khvost. Katalog vystavki kartin gruppy...
The very scarce catalogue for the first exhibition of 'The Donkey's Tail', the avant-garde Neo-Futurist / Primitivist group that included Larionov, Goncharova, Malevich and Tatlin.
£4,500
Larionov, Mikhail, Natalia Goncharova, Kasimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, Kirill Zdanevich et alOslinyĭ Khvost. Katalog vystavki...1912
La Maigre. Mise en Lumière et...
'La Maigre': a milestone in Iliazd's oeuvre, his first issue of a work by de Monluc and an important collaboration with Picasso.
£35,000
Picasso. Vaux, Guillaume. (Pseud. Adrian de Monluc)La Maigre. Mise en...1952
Sillage Intangible. Poème Accompagné d'une Pointe-Sèche...
'Sillage Intangible', uniting Lucien Scheler, Pablo Picasso and Iliazd in grief for and tribute to their lost friend Paul Eluard.
£15,000
Picasso, Pablo. Scheler, LucienSillage Intangible. Poème Accompagné...1958
Frieze of 6 Erotic Original Watercolour...
An original watercolour 'frieze' / leporello / letter by Dorothea Tanning.
£5,500
Tanning, DorotheaFrieze of 6 Erotic...c.1965
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